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Sunday 21 February 2021 - 5:09am France has already begun to experiment with office-to-home conversions AFP | ALAIN JOCARD PARIS - COVID-19 has emptied office buildings and business districts, and with working from home expected to be the norm after the pandemic, some want to convert them to residential use to help solve inner city housing crises. France has already begun to experiment with such conversions and "the significant rise in remote working encourages scaling up" such projects, French Housing Minister Emmanuelle Wargon said recently. She wants to acceler...

Covid-19: Could empty office buildings help solve France's housing crisis? Issued on: 3 min Paris (AFP) Covid-19 has emptied office buildings and business districts, and with working from home expected to be the norm after the pandemic, some want to convert them to residential use to help solve inner city housing crises. France has already begun to experiment with such conversions and "the significant rise in remote working encourages scaling up" such projects, French Housing Minister Emmanuelle Wargon said recently. She wants to accelerate the transformations to respond to both the need fo...